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Bruce Lee

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01Undated

Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.

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02Undated

Be happy, but never satisfied.

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03Undated

You must be shapeless, formless, like water. When you pour water in a cup, it becomes the cup. When you pour water in a bottle, it becomes the bottle. When you pour water in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Water can drip and it can crash. Become like water my friend.

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04Undated

Adapt what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own.

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05Undated

Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.

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06Undated

It is not a daily increase, but a daily decrease. Hack away at the inessentials.

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07Undated

The doubters said, "Man can not fly," The doers said, "Maybe, but we'll try," And finally soared In the morning glow While non-believers Watched from below.

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08Undated

The More we value things, the less we value ourselves

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09Undated

Don't get set into one form, adapt it and build your own, and let it grow, be like water.

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10Undated

Be like water making its way through cracks. Do not be assertive, but adjust to the object, and you shall find a way around or through it. If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves. Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle and it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.

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11Undated

Bring the mind into sharp focus and make it alert so that it can immediately intuit truth, which is everywhere. The mind must be emancipated from old habits, prejudices, restrictive thought processes and even ordinary thought itself.

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12Undated

Set patterns, incapable of adaptability, of pliability, only offer a better cage. Truth is outside of all patterns.

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13Undated

All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.

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14Undated

I’m not in this world to live up to your expectations and you’re not in this world to live up to mine.

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15Undated

Don't fear failure. — Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.

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16Undated

The spirit of the individual is determined by his dominating thought habits.

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17Undated

I am not afraid of a person who knows 10000 kicks. But I am afraid of a person who knows one kick but practices it for 10000 times.

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18Undated

True mastery transcends any particular art. It stems from mastery of oneself--the ability, developed through self-discipline, to be calm, fully aware, and completely in tune with oneself and the surroundings. Then, and only then, can a person know himself.

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19Undated

Effort within the mind further limits the mind, because effort implies struggle towards a goal and when you have a goal, a purpose, an end in view, you have placed a limit on the mind.

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20Undated

Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless, like water. Be water, my friend.

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21Undated

A conditioned mind is never a free mind.

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22Undated

Remember no man is really defeated unless he is discouraged.

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23Undated

Real living is living for others.

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24Undated

The essential quality of living life lies simply in the living.

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